hi,

ingo <ing### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
> In
> https://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3C69f841da%40news.povray.org%3E/
>
> I wrote a bit about a little ray tracer I'm writing. Besides the image,
> it now writes a lot of data to a SQLite database. Amongst that is the
> ray graph
> for each pixel. This, with some other data can then be queried:
> ...
> My toy renderer is single threaded. It's 840 KB large and has SQLite
> build in.
> Without using the database it renders the image in ~0.3 s. with database
> it takes ~2 seconds more. The resulting database is a whopping 220292KB.
> For archiving it can be compressed ~5.5x by 7zip.

v interesting stuff, I wish I had "head space" for.

what happens if, say, you re-render the same scene but with the camera moved a
little, does the whole database need rewriting/rebuilding ?

thanks.


regards, jr.

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